VISA Looking for Sr Software Engineer (Golang, Go developer) at Bengaluru Full Time

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses and economies to thrive.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.

Job Description

Payments are a very exciting and fast-developing area with a lot of new and innovative ideas coming to market. With strong demand for new solutions in this space, it promises to be an exciting area of innovation for the next 5 to 10 years. VISA is a strong leader in the payment industry and is rapidly transitioning into a technology company with significant investments in this area.

If you want to be in the exciting payment space, learn fast and make big impacts, VISA Risk and Identity Solutions team is an ideal place for you!

Risk and Identity Solutions team within VAS (Value added Services) organization is looking for curious, creative, and talented technologists to join our team.

This position is ideal for a software engineer who is passionate about solving challenging business problems and building applications that provide an excellent user experience. You will be one of the members of the Risk and Identity development team focusing on design and build of software solutions that leverage data to solve business problems. The role is for a self-motivated individual with software engineering skills and knowledge of Golang and related technologies. The candidate will be extensively involved in leading hands-on software engineering activities including POCs, design, documentation, development and test of new functionality.  You will also help and guide junior team members.

Essential Functions

• Work on emerging technologies, building distributed applications
• Collaborate with project team members (Product Managers, Architects, Analysts, Software Engineers, Project Managers, etc.) to ensure development and implementation of new data driven solutions.
• Drive development effort End-to-End for on-time delivery of high-quality solutions that conform to requirements, conform to the architectural vision, and comply with all applicable standards. 
• Collaborate with senior technical staff and PM to identify, document, plan contingency, track and manage risks and issues until all are resolved
• Write clean, testable code and unit tests.
• Collaborate with front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.
• Identify and eliminate bottlenecks to ensure efficiency, reliability, and scalability.
• Present technical solutions, capabilities, considerations, and features in business terms. Effectively communicate status, issues, and risks in a precise and timely manner.
• Mentor junior developers to ensure deliverables are on time with good code quality
• Coordinate Continuous Integration activities, testing automation frameworks and other related items in addition to contributing core product code

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• 2+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 5+ years of relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field with 5 years of Software Development Experience or a Masters degree with 2 years of Software Development Experience.
• Strong knowledge of Golang with required hand-on experience
• Preferred experience in building Golang microservice with gRPC implementation.
• Experience with container technologies like docker, kubernetes and NoSql databases
• Excellent knowledge of common goroutine and channel etc. patterns
• Experience with Go framework & tools. e.g Revel, Gin, Go kit etc.
• Significant development experience in a Java focused on data, APIs & Microservices
• Experience with containerizing Golang microservices.

• Strong analytical, problem solving and communication skills.
• Experience with Agile development incorporating TDD, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, utilizing technologies such as GIT, Maven, Jenkins, Chef, Sonar, JUnit, Mock frameworks.
• Experience developing large scale, enterprise class distributed system or subsystems that require high availability, low-latency, & strong data consistency computing
• Experience implementing solutions for low-latency, distributed services using open standard technologies.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills with effective communication (both written and verbal) skills and the ability to present complex ideas in a clear & concise way, a team player with a strong work ethic

Additional Information

Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.